Music Volume

Have a Dell Optiplex GX270 that when playing video clips in media player 9, the volume is low and you have to turn the speakers up wide open just to hear the clip. Music plays normally in media player. CD's play normally. The normal windows sounds are normal. Just seems to be any video clips it plays. Th pc has the built in SoundMax integrated audio if that helps. I loaded the latest drivers as well.

We have an identical pc in another office and this one has no issues at all. Plays perfectly.

Any ideas???

Have you tried MP10? Prolly won't fix anything, but sure does look cool. Also,.. have you tried d-clicking the "sound" icon in Control Panel and checkinig the settings?

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Originally Posted by WebHead

Have you tried MP10? Prolly won't fix anything, but sure does look cool. Also,.. have you tried d-clicking the "sound" icon in Control Panel and checkinig the settings?

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Yep. all the settings look good, wave volume turned up, cant find anything. I dont think this would have anything to do with it, but, I noticed the MP was not the default player for those types of files. Once I changed that, it seemed to get a little better....User still isnt satisfied. One of those that are nit picky about every tiny thing...

Thanks

Happens on my lappy as well, maybe a Soundmax issue?
But mostly its ok. Maybe a codec issue?

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Originally Posted by TechZ

.. Maybe a codec issue?

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I'd say so .. codec 'install on demand' as found in media player can lead to some 'peculiar annomolies' ..

Because it installs codecs 'as required', it may well have a 'just about ok codec' to play things with as opposed to 'bang on the right codec' to play it 'perfect', so because it can play it 'just about', it decides it doesn't need a 'better' codec.

To establish whether this is so or not try looking for your G-Spot :D

(its a utility which shows the encoding codecs used in most stuff ;))